Travels Together
 St. Augustine, FL | 2006
Walt Disney World | 2007
Walt Disney World 2 | 2007
Williamsburg, VA | 2005
Washington, DC | 2005
Chicago, IL | 2007
St. Marks/Wakulla, FL | 05-07
Kenosha, WI | 2007
Misc. United States | 2005-now
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Travis' Trips
 England |2006
Croatia |2005
Greece | 06 & 08
Italy | 05-07
Spain | 05-06
UAE | 06 & 08
The Netherlands | 2006
Norway | 2006
Bahrain | 06-08
Haiti | 2005
Cuba | 2005
Puerto Rico | 2005
Canada | 2004
The Dutch Antilles | 2005
Misc. United States | 1981-now
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Jenny's Journeys
St. Augustine, FL | 2003
Atlanta, GA | 2003
Miami, FL | 2002
Washington, DC | 2005
San Antonio, TX | 2004
Chicago, IL | 2004
Orlando, FL | 01 & 03
Live Oak, FL | 00-03
Misc. Florida | 2000-now
Misc. United States | 2000-now
Pre-2000 | 1977-2000
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Kenosha, WI | 2007
We went to the Bristol Ren Faire in WI. It was right over the border from Great Lakes, so not a long drive at all. We were a little late getting there so missed all the beginning shit but as luck would have it, we ended up in line next to three ladies who had an extra buy one get one free entrance coupon. I guess being late worked out this time!
When we got in, the first place we went was to try to find the Highland Games seeing as how it was Highland Games Weekend. The faire is rather large and the map rather confusing so we missed the first round of the highland games, but found The Sturdy Beggars' Mud Show. I have been to faires that had the Mud Show before, but I have never actually seen it for myself. It was very funny! We didn't get anything on us but we both loved it! I recommend it.
After the Mud Show we headed off in search of another set of Highland Games. We found them over at the Jousting field but, they seemed to be a bit boring! None of the stuff I am used to, just he shotput style competitions. I am used to the Caber Toss and shit like that, so we didn't stay long. We headed out to look around. Bought some lavender for cooking, got Trab some beer, and stopped into the Casta Diva Corset shop to talk to them and look around. She is the one who made my good custom made corset... even hand dyed my personal fabric I sent her. We ended up going by a few kilt shops. Trab has decided he wants a kilt in his family Tartan.
We stopped and ate lunch. While we were ordering Trab stopped the flower lady and bought me an orange gladiola... My FAVORITES! He is so sweet! Trab had the ribs and I had the chicken on a stick. If you didn't know, pretty much EVERYTHING at the faire comes on a stick! LOL.. Corn on the cob, chocolate bananas, steak, chicken, fruit... pork chops... We sat with another couple at this little table off to the side of one of the stands. It was in the shade and was in a brick surround covered with ivy. VERY picturesque!
After lunch we got Trab some more beer and I got a mead and we went to the jousting field for the Queen's Joust! I was a little disappointed in it honestly. Even though it was better looking than the North Florida Ren Faire's jousting costume wise, it looked much more fake. Their jousting was very realistic, while this was painfully contrived in parts. None the less it was enjoyable. We stopped into the little bakery and he got carrot cake and I had a "devil dog" (chocolate cake and cream stacked). It was very good!! I had a hard time deciding, they had some awesome looking apple pie! We also stopped to watched the glass blowing demonstration; it was really cool.
Next was the Tartanic show. We had seen a little it of it while walking by and wanted to catch the whole thing from the beginning! The Mead was SO good. I have always heard about the mead from other Rennies and none of the faires I have ever been to have had it! It is so light and sweet.. oh Goodness I love it! We got to the Tartanic show before it was time for it to start so we piddled around in the area. Trab wanted to go over to the petting Zoo because he loves animals! They had the ever popular chicken with pants!
Finally the Tartanic show started... these guys are great. Very funny, animated & talented! They do "techno-rave/bagpipes". LOL I have always been a fan of both so I loved it. Trab loved it, he even bought one of their CD's from the lady with the baby! It was SO adorable! He had them write "Tartanic Rox" on his "ab" and we took a pic of it and sent it to them. LOL. They were really really entertaining and I hope we get to see them again.
After Tartanic we wandered and got some more beer/mead. We just took some time to walk and take pictures and go into the little shops. We walked by where they had the elephant rides and the pirates cove. A lot of people were dressed as pirates because it was the sea merchants costume weekend. But, there are always a lot of pirates even before the first PotC came out. There is so much neat stuff we could have spent $1,000.00 easily! Everything smells so good! We could have ate ourselves sick and almost did! Some of the costumes are so detailed and amazing! Most of these people do not work for the faire either. They just come in full dress it is so awesome.
Finally we ended up at the Pig 'n' Whistle Tavern for the Christophe the Insulter show. This was marked NC-17 on the show list so of course we had to go! This was possibly the funniest shit I have ever seen! people in the audience PAY this guy to insult their friends... the more you pay the worst it gets. I have heard some shit n my day but THIS was outstanding... He said shit that Made **ME** gasp and you know how hard that is to do. I'm pretty foul... It was fucking hilarious! I almost told Trab to buy his "Cock Block" CD. LOL... he had two CDs... he said on one he was drunk and the other he was on coke... I can't even begin to describe what this was like other than to say "OH SNAP!" LOL. I WISH my cunt ass friends would have been there it was great!
After the show we started to move to the front gates and got ready to go home, we stopped and got some food for dinner instead of making something when we got home. Trab had the portabello banger and I had a portobella sandwich with fresh bruschetta. We both had fresh made root beer. It was pretty good. After that we went home. We had SOOOOOO much fun. For being Trab's first ren faire it sure was a good one. We went back one more weekend before it was over, but it wasn't as great because it had rained for days!
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